UK Government Contract Notices for August 2016

August 2016 contract notices from the UK government's Contracts Finder, published in the Open Contracting Data Standard flattened CSV format. The dataset contains daily files with all OCDS releases for each calendar day. The Crown Commercial Service is the organization responsible for the data.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily contract release patterns across the month of August 2016 using the flattened OCDS fields.
• Map the structure and completeness of OCDS-formatted procurement data for a specific time period.
• Extract specific contracting fields like 'tender/value' or 'award/date' from the daily CSV files for compliance tracking.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.
• Provides a complete month of daily contract notice releases for August 2016.
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service, the UK government's procurement body.

Limitations

• The dataset is temporally limited to a single month from 2016, making it stale for current analysis.
• No metadata on row count, column count, or file size is available to assess scale.
• The specific OCDS fields (columns) within the flattened CSV are not listed in the input.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Contracts Finder platform.

Collection Method

Published government procurement notices compiled into daily CSV files using the Open Contracting Data Standard.

Time Range

August 2016.

Freshness

The data itself is from August 2016, though the metadata was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom.